TALBOT1024

Florence
Dec^r 1^st 1822

My dear Henry

I am afraid I did not express myself clearly yesterday when I wrote to desire you to take rooms in an inn for us instead of lodgings for a month, so I write again to say that all we shall want is a [illegible deletion] from the 21st for a week bedroom & sitting room for ourselves with a bed room adjoining for my maid & a bed room somewhere for the Courier we do not care whether high or low & of course shall be glad of as cheap as is consistent with comfort. Tell me how to direct to William? ¹ Florence is very dull & we have no letters of introduction thinking Aunt Lily ² w^d be introduction enough so we are not likely to see what little there may be – I heard from M^r Lemon ³ yesterday, they are all well but find Paris very dirty & dull which latter I should think nearly impossible at least without I should never tire of the Louvre Bibliotéque & Jardin de Plantes, they have had much the same weather as we have had here, incessant rain for three weeks. How do you like Rome?

Your aff^te Cousin
Jane H Nicholl

Mind to let me know how to direct to William so that he will receive my letter. –

À Monsieur
Monsieur W. H. Talbot
Poste Restante
à Rome